1. OpenU:
innovative personal learning
and work environment
Wilfred Rubens

2. Educational sciences
Computer sciences
Management sciences
Psychology
Foto: Rod Trevaskus

3. http://www.openu.nl
Guest
entrance

7. My...
• Dashboard
• Profile (personal, work, education & expertise, experience,
social networks, Open University)
• Contacts
• Personal tools (blog, wiki, documents)

8. User decides
access level info
Integration LinkedIn

9. Connections, knowledge exchange

10. Connections, knowledge exchange
Connectivity
between students,
reduction drop
out

11. Urgency
• L&D: technological developments, new views on learning
• Need for L&D professionals to refresh knowledge
• Courses or educational master do not always match with
learning needs
• Need for flexibility
• Target group: teachers, learning professionals

12. Learning path (leertraject): Learning
and Teaching in the 21 Century
• 6 online masterclasses (from larger
overview)
• Validating (non certified) learning activities,
done elsewhere
• Archive previous masterclasses
• Digital resources Master Educational
Sciences
• Expert network
• Discount lectures and conferences
• Certification based on learning efforts

13. Subjects online masterclasses
• Effective learning strategies
• Improvement professionalisation
• Future virtual learning environments
• Tablets for learning
• Digital literacy
• Augmented reality
• ....

14. Online masterclass
• Day 1: orientation (e.g. intake)
• Day 2: in depth studying theory & connecting practice
• Day 3: live online session (interview & chat)
• Day 4-6: continuing study
• Day 6: paper presentation
PHD-students
• Day 7: closure

15. Assignments
Online masterclasses
Discussions
Live sessions
Resources

16. Name
Name

17. Validating learning activities done elsewhere
• Participation not enough, evidence needed (e.g. blog posts)
• ‘Learning tax payers form’
• Sample to check
• Certification based on hours spend
• Re-registration Teacher Registration

18. Learning path (leertraject): Learning
and Teaching in the 21 Century
• 6 online masterclasses (from
larger overview)
• Validating (non certified) learning
activities, done elsewhere
• Certification

19. Course environment

21. 3 ways
completing

22. Monitor

23. Name
Photo

26. Monitor group

27. Monitor group

28. Campaign website master software engineering
48 new students
Master Computer Sciences: 20 new students a year.

29. Campaign website master software engineering
48 new students
Master Computer Sciences: 20 new students a year.
OpenU aid:
- transfer 2-year to 1-year master
- influx information
- influx intake

30. Snapshots
• About 10% every course open online (pdf or web-
based)
• Downloadable without registration
• Creative Commons license
• No examination or tutoring
• Two functions:
• Preview potential students
• Stimulation interest

31. Open Educational Resources
• Free articles
blog posts, video’s
• Free courses
• OpenU enables selective access
• Freemium
• OER is part OpenU

33. Dissemination results
research
• Topic communities and portals:
education, research, partner
organisations,blog posts

35. Sharing
knowledge
Dialogue
Curation
information

36. Thanks
wilfred.rubens@ou.nl
Skype: wrubens
http://www.slideshare.net/wrubens
http://www.openu.nl
Thanks to Lex Bijlsma and Anda Counotte for the
slides of Computer Sciences